UK-EU negotiations

The European Commission regularly sends notices to businesses to help them prepare for Britain’s departure from the EU as part of its so-called Brexit preparedness activities. A technical notice on ‘rules of origin’ released today is bound to send shivers across industries ranging from autos to chemicals. Industries with …

The European Union and the British government have gotten the ball rolling to establish the UK as an independent member of the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement. The GPA is a plurilateral accord inked in the 1990s that sets common rules and enshrines liberalisation commitments among its members …

Britain’s exit from the European Union will have a negative effect on EU member states’ opportunities to trade with the UK. This is why damage control will be of paramount importance, say Anna Stellinger and Oscar Wåglund Söderström of Sweden’s National Board of Trade. From a Swedish perspective, the best solution would …

There’s only one big event on the Brussels trade agenda this week – another negotiating round with Mercosur – but that doesn’t mean the coming days will be quiet. Between the start of US tariffs on European steel and aluminium, the EU’s decision to respond with a World Trade Organization …

Today, the UK released slides on the Framework for the Future EU UK Economic Partnership. How much of it will fly with the EU is an open question. A novelty is emerging with Brexit in the world of international trade negotiations: the exchange of published PowerPoint slides. The advantage …

Theresa May’s government has started articulating proposals for the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU, which both sides are discussing this week in Brussels. Among them is the idea that data issues merit more than a ‘plain vanilla’ EU adequacy decision to guarantee safe and secure cross-border …

The European Commission requested a mandate from member states to redefine its tariff rate quotas under the World Trade Organization as Britain is set to leave the bloc in less than one year. The UK and the EU need to establish separate tariff and services schedules in the WTO …

A quarter of the issues remain open, says Ekaterina Zaharieva, Bulgaria’s minister for foreign affairs. That’s the main takeaway from today’s meeting of European ministers on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. The remaining EU27 states concluded that “not much progress has been made since the European Council …

Britain has a long list of trade issues to tackle in the coming months, from starting talks with Australia, New Zealand and the US to taking its own seat at the World Trade Organization. But the UK’s programme doesn’t rest on any solid strategy, argues David Henig.